Sunday, April 18, 2004
(4:57 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Reading Fiction
Ogged apparently doesn't anymore. He tells of a high school English teacher who stopped reading fiction at some point and says:
Even though I'm now just about half his age at the time, I think I understand what he meant. I've managed to read, all the way through, three or four novels in the last five years. When I was in high school, I would read that many in a week, or even a weekend. But I just can't do it anymore. I lose interest. I even resent the author for thinking that I'll spend so much time in a world of his creation.I have also largely stopped reading fiction. I know in my head that it's good and worthwhile, and I'm a strong advocate of particular novels, but I just can't motivate myself to get through them. I don't know that it's a problem of a "world of his creation" that's the problem, since I did read Phenomenology of Spirit in its entirety -- I can't really figure out what changed.
In any case, maybe this is something we could talk about, since I know there are several very avid readers of fiction in the Weblog Commenter Community.
